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Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medical History and Bioethics, Orthopedics & Rehabilitation, and History of Science

Office: 1426 Med Sci Center
1300 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706-1585
Phone: 608-262-6760(office)
608-262-1460 (Med. Hist. office)
Fax: 608-262-2327
Email: schalick@wisc.edu
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Special interests and recent research:

Medieval Western medicine, disability history, history of childhood and pediatrics, bioethics and children

Recent publications:

  • To market, to market: The theory and practice of opiates in the Middle Ages. In: Meldrum M, ed. Opioids and Pain Relief: A Historical Perspective Seattle, WA: IASP Press 2003; 25: 5-20.
  • Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician. In: Duffin J, ed. Clio in the Clinic. Oxford: Oxford University Press and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. 27-45.
  • Albrecht GA, Bichenbach J, Mitchell D, Schalick WO, Snyder S, eds. Encyclopedia of Disability. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Press, 2005.
  • The Fog of War and the Declining Prevalence of Mental Retardation. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2006; 116: 318-20.

Regularly offered courses:

  • 507: Health, Disease and Healing I
  • 668: A History of Western Disability